ART of LIVING/FAMILY
It is this ability to communicate and share meanings that constitutes human culture and enables man, through social associations, to build civilizations. Knowledge and wisdom become cumulative...And thereby arise the cultural activities of the race: art, science, religion, and philosophy. (1775:4)
ARTICLES
What are our core beliefs and values? Are they of the society in which we grew up, those mostly acquired by age 10 and virtually all by age 20? Or have we been able to let go to replace them with values appropriate for a child of God...?
This constellation of thoughts regarding the family of God emerged during three years of research in The Urantia Book and in religious history on the general topic of the socialization of religion. Share a few of the conclusions drawn from these studies...
This article deals with the true nature of art from the cosmic perspective, and why art defined in this fashion is so vitally important to us. The Urantia Book is unique in the broad marketplace of ideas...
"What he (Jesus) aimed at in his life appears to have been a superb self-respect." (page 1582)...
Democratic
Parenting:
The Importance of Family and
the Family Council
What we liberate in others, we also liberate in ourselves. This is a phenomenon and little understood. Indeed, this is the only way to real and lasting freedom...
In The Urantia Book the family concept portrays ideal relationships, even divine relationships, on the highest spiritual levels. The references nearly exhaust our human concepts of supremacy and importance...
Are parents today wise in their children’s upbringing? Are our homes educational and do they rear responsible adults? Are our education systems balancing the drive towards materialistic professions with pursuits which enhance the inner life? What can we do? The author of this paper does not presume to hold the answers but turns to The URANTIA Book for guidance about our individual commitments to our solemn duties as parents and citizens of our society.
Brotherhood, the kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men and women, will create religious unity if, and only if, religionists are free from all notions of ecclesiastical (religious) authority and sovereignty...
